I don't know about the football schools, but I do know the Pac West
conference strongly supports admitting Simon Fraser into the NCAA as a
Division II member.  In 1997-98 the conference included Montana-Billings,
Seattle Pacific, Alaska Anchorage, Alaska Fairbanks, Chaminade, Hawaii Hilo
and Western New Mexico.  Central Washington, Lewis and Clark State, St.
Martin's, Western Washington, BYU-Hawaii and Hawaii Pacific are all joining
for 1998-99.  Western Oregon is currently a provisional member.  Simon
Fraser will also be a provisional member of the conference while still in
the NAIA and ineligible for post season tournaments.  The conference
sponsors men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country and
women's volleyball.
 
SFU also has varsity teams in field hockey, football, golf, soccer,
softball, swimming and diving, track and field, and wrestling.  They offer
scholarships to Canadians and Americans and are also the defending NAIA
Sears Directors' Cup champions.  As John Edwards stated, there probably will
be no impact if they are admitted to the NCAA, but it is possible that like
Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Fairbanks they could field an NCAA Division I
ice hockey team while remaining an NCAA Division II school if they are
admitted.  I actually think it's an intriguing idea.
 
There have been a couple of interesting articles in the SFU student
newspaper about their efforts to gain admittance to the NCAA at
 
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/97-1/issue3/ncaa.html and
http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/97-3/issue8/ncaa.html
 
-----Original Message-----
From: John Edwards <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, August 10, 1998 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: NCAA D2 considers letting Canadian school in.
 
 
>On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, NWLB (E-Ticket) wrote:
>
>> Also according to the NCAA News, (August 3, 98, page 24) 17 schools have
>> proposed an amendment to allow Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, to
>> become and NCAA Division 2 member.  The article notes that its a specific
>> exception, not an attempt to lift the general prohibition against non-US
>> schools joining.
>
>This will probably not have much hockey relevance.
>
>SFU has always been a part of the NAIA, having elected to go the US route
>when the University opened in the mid-1960s. This makes SFU unique in
>that it is the only Canadian school allowed to offer athletic
>scholarships in a serious way.
>
>They are looking to join the NC$$ because the other NAIA schools in their
>area (Western Washington, Central Washington, Lewis & Clark, etc) have
>already left and joined NC$$ Division II. I suspect it is the former
>Columbia Football Association schools who are sponsoring of SFU's bid to
>join the NCAA.
>
>SFU has never, to my knowledge, iced a hockey team. I doubt that they
>would any time in the near future.
>
 
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